Dive Summary:
- Several utilities have band together to fight a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to reduce atmospheric haze by imposing extensive air pollution controls for coal-fired power plants in Wyoming.
- Tuesday, the Basic Electric Power Cooperative, the Missouri Basin Power Project, PacifiCorp, Rocky Mountain Power and the Wyoming Rural Electric Association announced the campaign "Stop EPA WY" which will run ads urging people to oppose the haze-busting controls.
- Utilities say EPA's plan will drive up electricity rates and cost utilities over $1 billion, the Basin Electric Power Cooperative spokesman Daryl Hill reported.
From the article:
" ‘It really starts with the production side and that's where the biggest costs are going to be," Hill said. "When you start factoring that into rates, that's certainly going to have an effect.’"
